Perspectives of the Numerical Order of Material Changes in Timeless Approaches in Physics

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 105-133

  Fiscaletti, Davide ^a,b   Sorli, Amrit ^a,b  

^a SpaceLife Institute ^*  (Italy)

^b Foundations of Physics Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

General relativity; Numerical order of material changes; Quantum mechanics; Space; Time; Timeless approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921935873     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: 15729516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-014-9840-y     Document Type: Article

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